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This paper argues against a natural resource curse for human development. We find evidence that changes in human development from 1970 to 2005, proxied by changes in the Human Development Index, are positively and significantly correlated with natural resource abundance. While our results are consistent with those of other authors […]

China and the United States are the world’s biggest consumers of oil. To understand the impact that oil reserves can have on the governance of a resource-rich country it is equally important to take into account the role of oil-consuming countries.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai speaks on the relationship between scarce natural resources and global conflict.

Oxford Professor Paul Collier talks about the natural resource curse and makes suggestions on how to overcome it.

“What we are currently thinking about is how to avoid the resource curse through two things, first, how to make oil and gas revenues transparent, and second, how to increase citizen’s participation in sustainable development planning” says Kunarto Marzuki. Best practices from Indonesia.